Today's Classroom Activities :

Egg-cellent Classroom Activities

Matching Eggs
Math/Art Provide each student with a plastic egg to decorate with stickers and permanent markers. Once the eggs have dried, separate the egg halves and mix them all together in a basket. Have the children match and reattach the halves.

Egg-cellent Egg-speriments - Make eggs squeeze through tight spaces and bounce into the air, with a little help from science.

Eggs Galore!
Science/Poetry/Art Read the following poem to the class. Can the children discover the meaning of "dozen" and "half a dozen" from the poem? Compare the soft, leathery eggshell of the turtles to the hard shells of the chicks. Compare the raising techniques of each. Work together to make a nest of eggs using the recipe in Activity 5. Write more poems about things that come from eggs.

Hatched Batch

by Heidi Roemer

Half a dozen turtle eggs
In a clutch of sand.
Six turtles hatch.
Isn't that grand?

A dozen chicken eggs lay
In a nest of sticks.
Twelve eggs hatch. See?
A dozen downy chicks!

Matching Sounds
Listening Open a dozen plastic eggs. Place a different material into six pairs of eggs. Materials might include paper clips, sand, rice, buttons, etc. Replace the egg tops and tape them closed. Challenge the children to shake the eggs and find the two that make the same sound. Can they guess what is inside?

Eggs That Count
Writing/SequencingTake pictures of your class throughout the day's activities. Print them and ask students to place them in the correct time sequence and to dictate captions.